Hello again,

Just wanted to update everyone on the album progress. As you know, we finished recording the album and I was just going to release it BUT apparently there’s this thing called ‘promotion’…and apparently we are supposed to be doing it. So, in short, I was a little trigger happy when I said the album would be out in October (obviously) and I am going to have to withhold these magnificent tracks from you for a tiny bit longer while we grapple with this new concept. Tentative release date is now in February.
The good news is that I found an INCREDIBLE artist for the album artwork. No cheap graphic design or cheesy photos for us! The preliminary sketches look great and are really evocative of the vibe of the album.
In other album news, we received honorable mention in the New York Songwriter’s Circle songwriting competition for the title track of the new album, “Go Call the Captain.”

Hello again,

We have just listened to the mastered tracks – they sound REALLY good.  Thank god for Elie, that’s all I can say.  Elie actually means ‘god is my help,’ although in this case Elie is my help.  He has an INCREDIBLE ear, and was present and active throughout the mixing and mastering sessions.  He can hear things I can not, so he did a lot of stuff that I can’t really hear but is probably really important.  He can also juggle fire…and  I’m still trying to find a way to incorporate that into the live show.  In short, Elie is an incredible artist and I am amazed that I get to work with him.

At the moment we are putting the album art together and then we should be good to go.

Can’t wait to share this with everyone!

Today we are launching our Song of the indeterminate time period.  Every week so often from here on out we will be putting up a song for you to download (audio or video).  This may be a cover, a re-mix or demo of an original song, or a performance video.

This week we did a cover of “If I had a Hammer,” which we think is an awesome song.  I don’t know why people stopped writing protest songs, there’s still plenty of bad shit going on!

Anyway, hope you enjoy it and hammer out all the love you can this week 🙂

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It is suddenly really nice here in New York, mother nature has been very kind since September rolled around and it’s cool and sunny with a bright blue sky overhead.

We just got back from a short trip back to the motherland, AKA England, and played a really cool show in Dorset at The Grand Hotel..woo hoo!  Now we are back at The Cutting Room recording the last of the vocals – had a challenging time recording ‘Something Might Happen’ today, something was not happening  – and I’m blaming it on the microphone.

So summer is pretty much over but prepare for the best fall of your LIFE, because this album is STUNNING!

We have a new music video up for y’all to enjoy.  So here is the story behind the scenes, underneath all the glitz, glamour and expensive production:

We worked for 6 month full time (ugh) in a casino (ugh) singing cheesy Italian songs while rowing a gondola in Macau (ugh? Yes.) So after finishing our contract with the big, probably evil corporation known as The Venetian, Elie and I decided to hit the road and travel around China and South East Asia  before coming back to the US.

We ended up spending a LOT of time on trains, where we learned, among other things, a.) Chinese people have a very different idea of personal space and b.) If you vomit directly into an overflowing toilet, you WILL get splashed in the face.

We also spent plenty of time looking out windows, especially once we ran out of pirated Sopranos episodes.  So with nothing better to do, I captured some of the scenery on the trip from Hong Kong to Beijing to Lhasa.  My crappy camera does not do justice to some of the breathtaking scenery, but it’s still pretty impressive and the footage complements “Blood and Fire” really well.

We have some performance videos up also, “So Many Things,” “Song to Silence the World,” and “By the Side of the Road,” all recorded for rockmetv.com.

Enjoy:)